Feminist political graphic from Nikki Craft’s Always Causing Legal Unrest project. A sexualized image of a woman, with a red block covering her mouth, is paired with the statement “A Free Speech Message Brought to You by the American Civil Liberties Union.” The work redirects the institutional language of free speech toward the ACLU and challenges the protection of pornographic representation while feminist speech was marginalized or threatened. The graphic carries a Rancho Cordova, California address. This standalone record connects with ACLU-00, the historical overview and document guide; ACLU-08, “Bondage Is Not Sexual Liberation / Break Loose!”; ACLU-02, the Pushing Buttons catalog; and the Bill of Rights Day records ACLU-03 and ACLU-03a. The supplied source image includes a black area reading “BACK”; the publication document displays the graphic itself, while the original PNG remains included unchanged.

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Always Causing Legal Unrest

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Nikki Craft, Always Causing Legal Unrest, ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, A Free Speech Message, free speech, pornography, sexualized imagery, silencing women, radical feminism, feminist political art, anti-pornography activism, feminist parody, Pushing Buttons, Rancho Cordova California, civil liberties

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